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Wicked Pdf
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Working with PDFs in Ruby
We’ll start with the WickedPDF gem, which is powered by the wkhtmltopdf command-line library.
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Creating PDFs in a Ruby on Rails application
You have a few options when trying to create a PDF in a Rails environment. Prawn and Wicked PDF have been around for quite a while. I have been using both gems and they work fine. However, they have a few limitations that can make it difficult to handle more complex PDFs. I recently discovered Grover, which can remediate some of this inflexibility in creating PDFs.
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Generate PDF with gem wicked_pdf
# WickedPDF Global Configuration # # Use this to set up shared configuration options for your entire application. # Any of the configuration options shown here can also be applied to single # models by passing arguments to the `render :pdf` call. # # To learn more, check out the README: # # https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf/blob/master/README.md WickedPdf.config ||= {} WickedPdf.config.merge!({ layout: "pdf.html.erb", orientation: "Landscape", lowquality: true, zoom: 1, dpi: 75 })
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Converting HTML to PDF using Rails
A couple of popular gems to convert HTML to PDF in Rails are PDFKit and WickedPDF. They both use a command line utility called wkhtmltopdf under the hood; which uses WebKit to render a PDF from HTML.
- Gerando PDF com a gem wicked_pdf no Rails 6
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20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilience and sunk cost fallacy
Thanks for sharing - it takes a lot to share these sort of personal experiences. I've definitely been there, too.
Aside from all the good and valid comments about reducing scope and shipping an MVP, I'd like to raise another point which may be controversial (or even wrong), but still worth raising:
Would it have been different if you had used Rails? A few of the problems you mention (rich text editing, validation, and to some extend, pdf exports) are very easily solved in Rails. Take rich text editing: It's literally a couple minutes to use ActionText. Or validations / forms, there's really not much work to do. PDF exports are also not too hard via wicked_pdf [1] if you're okay with fixing some formatting quirks later on.
I've seen both worlds by writing tons of JS / React code myself, and at that time (2016-2018) those problems were almost an order of magnitude more time-costly to implement in SPAs. I remember react-router.. not great memories.
Of course, all the points reducing MVP scope still hold, yadda yadda, but.. if you could have had all those features (nearly) for free, would you be at another stage now? Who knows.
[1] https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf
WKHTMLToPDF
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Working with PDFs in Ruby
We’ll start with the WickedPDF gem, which is powered by the wkhtmltopdf command-line library.
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Any good tutorials for working with pdfs in Rust?
The only “sane” way I’ve found to be able to deal with pdfs is through this tool https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
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Batch saving webpages to PDFs? (Sub wiki page deleted)
wget + https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
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Get attributes from another session without loading that session
Thanks for the suggestion! KnpSnappyBundle was my initial way to go as well, but my pages use quite some Javascript (chartJs) to render and I couldn’t get wkhtmltopdf to work with it. As it seems wkhtmltopdf does not support ES6 https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/issues/3596 so I was forced to find another way.
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Open Source Tool to create a PDF structure via coding?
wkhtmltopdf — Generates PDFs from HTML documents.
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Fixed width tables in PDFs
Of the HTML-based pdf-engines pandoc supports, prince would have the best typography, but I don't like recommending Prince because it's proprietary and costs money. (I try to stick to open source when I can.) wkhtmltopdf is the fastest, but uses a pretty old codebase, and doesn't even support paged/print css. weasyprint is a little better in my experience, but still has a ways to go typographically. pagedjs-cli is just a wrapper around headless Chrome/Chromium, and while Chrome has made improvements with regard to typography, Google turns off some of those features (e.g., hyphens) in headless mode, which is annoying.
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Is there a command line program to convert web pages into readable markdown/htm/pdf format? preferably markdown
Concerning pdf there is the well known wkhtmltopdf , but let me say that I love the not so well known percollate
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LaTex alternative/replacement written in Rust?
Did you try wkhtmltopdf and WeasyPrint, by any chance?
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Is there any program that helps you build your own bestiary for homebrew settings?
Since the srd uses standardized links (base/creature type/creature name) you could make a list of urls based on your selected monsters in a spreadsheet, then use a program like https://wkhtmltopdf.org/, https://www.weenysoft.com/free-html-to-pdf-converter.html, or the url conversion feature in Adobe Acrobat Pro if you combine all the urls into an htm for Acrobat to pull from.
What are some alternatives?
Pdfkit - A Ruby gem to transform HTML + CSS into PDFs using the command-line utility wkhtmltopdf
Dompdf - HTML to PDF converter for PHP
Prawn - Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby
DinkToPdf - C# .NET Core wrapper for wkhtmltopdf library that uses Webkit engine to convert HTML pages to PDF.
Grover - A Ruby gem to transform HTML into PDFs, PNGs or JPEGs using Google Puppeteer/Chromium
TCPDF - Official clone of PHP library to generate PDF documents and barcodes
Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
mPDF - PHP library generating PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML
CombinePDF - A Pure ruby library to merge PDF files, number pages and maybe more...
WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory
HexaPDF - Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome